Green Group discussion

Let's collect information here about communities being forced to move due to climate change.
Please post good links to your stories.

This is an unhappy consequence of the natural environment changing - the homes of people as well as nature, may be affected, downgraded or even removed. Rising sea water is causing this community of mostly Native Americans to have to move from their Louisiana town.
State funds are promised, partly because interference with the river systems has eroded the marshland that used to hold back the sea.

https://www.citylab.com/environment/2...

South Africans are about to run out of water in April and I can foresee large scale movements at that point. Cape Town is on the coast - imagine the conditions inland.

"The city doesn’t plan to cut off the water supply to poor townships, hospitals, schools and the central business district. It hasn’t revealed how it will manage the allocation of water at the 200 collection points or what logistical arrangements will be made to help those without cars to transport it home.
Contingency Plans
Maimane said the authorities will hold weekly briefings about their contingency plans.
Talks are under way with the South African National Defence Force about storing water at military bases and with the police about ensuring security is in place should the taps run dry, because normal law enforcement would be inadequate, Zille said."

What the article doesn't mention is that people in the poor townships cannot afford the seven dollar cost of being connected to piped water, so they bring containers to coin-operated water fountains. In short, they do not waste.
The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articl...

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-...

Here is one from the Los Angeles Times. If wealthy countries are busy with their own movements, they will have little inclination to help others.

http://www.latimes.com/world/global-d...

Here is a story about islands.

http://www.businessinsider.com/sea-le...

Jimmy wrote: "Here is one from the Los Angeles Times. If wealthy countries are busy with their own movements, they will have little inclination to help others.

http://www.latimes.com/world/global-d......"

Good report, Jimmy. Here is a relevant book.
Retreat from a Rising Sea: Hard Choices in an Age of Climate Change

Mentioned in the book is that retirement communities and nuclear power stations both tend to be located on coasts.

And I feel it's worth adding a link to that temperature timeline graph.
https://xkcd.com/1732/

Central America is the subject of this article. Small farmers are not getting the expected rain, and this is why they are moving north.

A nice portion is the descriptions of gabions, rock-filled cages set into stream beds to slow the water flow and help the ground absorb water. Low tech, cheap tech and could be done anywhere. These are in the Sonora Desert.
https://www.pri.org/stories/2018-07-1...

A different kind of community; archaeologists are working fast to record or preserve ancient Scottish homes before rising seas destroy them. The Orkneys have structures from the Stone Age, with tombs from 5,000 years ago and Viking graffiti juxtaposed.

This is a good look from the NYT with drone clips, walkarounds of homes and exposed sites.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...

Clare wrote: "A different kind of community; archaeologists are working fast to record or preserve ancient Scottish homes before rising seas destroy them. The Orkneys have structures from the Stone Age, with tom..."

Amazing article. Heroic efforts to save historical sites and artifacts. The photography is breathtaking!

This does not mention bird nesting colonies, but gannets for instance are threatened by the same issue in that area.
The gannet is also Ireland's largest sea bird, if we do not count the white tailed sea eagle.

I never heard of the Orkney's until these articles came out. It is a fascinating place. One of the side effects of having huge shell dumps on land near the shores is over time the soil becomes highly enriched from the breakdown of the shells into the soil, compared to the original soil near the shores. Those were the days when the garbage pits enriched the soil.

The huge shell dumps, called middens, also made a good structural base to build the houses into, providing Earth-sheltered insulation from the cold weather. Probably was also good for drainage.

Like a coral reef aboveground.
The Orkney Scroll

Murder mystery set among the archaeology.

The nice people at Orkney dotcom send me a newsletter every month to show me the beauty of the islands and crafts.

https://www.visitorkney.com/

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